Enslaved People Named: Stepney
On September 4, 1821, Jesse Ham bought “one negro boy named Stepney” for $350 at a sheriff’s sale in Bryan County. Stepney had been seized from the estate of Charles E. Harden and sold to satisfy a judgement in favor of the administrator of Reuben S. Saffold’s estate. Bryan County Sheriff George H. Shuman documented the sale. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on January 3, 1822.
Source: Family Search.org. Liberty County Superior Court “Deeds and mortgages, 1777-1920; general index to deeds and mortgages, 1777-1958,” Film: Deeds & Mortgages, v. H-I 1816-1831,” Record Book H (1816-1822), p. 430. Image #248 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSR5-N?i=247&cat=292358)